Ex-Manchester United forward Jesse Lingard has come out to say that people didn’t have his best interests at heart when he signed for Nottingham Forest in 2022. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he wasn’t in control of the situation when the decision was reached for him to go to Forest, and he would have preferred a different destination at the time.
Lingard added that he didn’t feel like he could voice his opinion to change things, and that made a potential return to West Ham fall through.
“The Forest deal, when we were going through that – and I don’t want to go into too much detail – but I wasn’t in control of anything at that time. I basically didn’t have a choice. I knew what I wanted to do, I knew what offer was on the table from West Ham and what was on offer from Forest – there was a place I’d have preferred to go.
But people have their own say and at the time I didn’t really feel like I could voice my opinion. Now I can see people didn’t have my best interests [at heart]. But obviously West Ham didn’t happen. I went to Forest.”
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Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system.
Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing in Clayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.
Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day of Atkinson’s dismissal, and guided the club to an 11th-place finish in the league. Despite a second-place finish in 1987–88, the club was back in 11th place the following season. Reportedly on the verge of being dismissed, Ferguson’s job was saved by victory over Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA Cup final.
The following season, Manchester United claimed their first UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup title. That triumph allowed the club to compete in the European Super Cup for the first time, where United beat European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1–0 at Old Trafford. The club appeared in two consecutive League Cup finals in 1991 and 1992 the left and the right, but he’s not got any sense of danger yet, and empties the midfield area too readily.
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